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Houston, TX

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Walk Audits

Description: This project will feature four walk audits to assess sidewalks, safer streets, and potential trail expansion along Keegan's Bayou. Translated materials and community meetings will amplify older adults' voices.

Stanton, TN

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Walk Audits

Description: The project will feature at least two walk audits from the Ford Community Center to the Town Hall and local businesses. With a new automotive manufacturing complex, the town is preparing for rapid growth.

Muskogee, OK

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Walk Audits

Description: The project will conduct three walk audits to document issues faced by walkers, wheelchair users, and people using canes. Two community meetings will discuss audit results to inform future planning.

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Wake Forest, NC

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Bike Audits

Description: The project will conduct five bike audits over five months. Older volunteers will assist and present findings to the Town. Results will be included in the Age-Friendly Action Plan.

Raleigh, NC

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2017

Project Category: Public space activation

Description: As part of efforts to set up a new community center at a donated house, the City of Oaks Foundation purchased furnishings and equipment to host events onsite. To get the property ready, the Foundation hosted several volunteer days, where community members helped restore trails and clear underbrush onsite. In the months that followed, programming at the Joslin House and Garden ranged from plein air painting, art showings, a nature event featuring live owls and other creatures, a mother-grandmother tea, gardening workshops and a lecture on World Way I history. Project organizers say these events -- and others -- have helped with fundraising efforts as work on the house and surrounding gardens continues. The Foundation estimates more than 400 visitors each year have attended events in the community space, with many others visiting to stroll the property.

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